Armando Iannucci Quotes

When you do a movie as opposed to a TV show, it's always tempting to think everything has to be big and exaggerated and spectacular. And in fact, a lot of the funniest comedy films have been very intimate.

Armando Iannucci

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: writer
  • Nationality: scottish
  • Birth: November 28, 1963

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I agreed to film after my rookie year in Golden State. I was more used to cameras and felt that my journey to the NBA was a story worth sharing. Little did we know how much bigger the platform and documentary would become after Linsanity.

Jeremy Lin

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I had family in Carolina who were very hood and talked differently in this sort of Southern cadence.

John David Washington

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A downside to being a successful novelist? Wow - I can't imagine one.

Andrew Sean Greer

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As an ex-stand up, I can tell you that a comedy club isn't a place you go looking to get the abuse you just can't seem to find in daily life. The stage is a performer's domain. You protect that domain. You are not on stage to take what's given just 'cause you're getting paid. If you are attacked, you retaliate.

John Ridley

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In the fall term of 1933-34 I was on my family farm in Maine.

Stephen Cole Kleene

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If you have to lie, cheat, steal, obstruct and bully to get your point across, it must not be a point capable of surviving on its own merits.

Steven Weber

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They said I couldn't play anything but an English boy. I knew I could. So I went to New York.

Roddy McDowall

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For years, I have been writing that ultimately, if nothing else stops the Iranian nuclear project, such as the sanctions or a change in the regime in Tehran, then Israel itself will take action to destroy it from the air.

Ronen Bergman

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I like reality. It tastes like bread.

Jean Anouilh

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I never kissed my father until he was on his death bed.

Douglas Fairbanks, Jr.

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I was a huge fan of comics: not necessarily 'Luke Cage.' I was more of an 'X-Men' head. I was always more Chris Claremont, Frank Miller, John Byrne.

Cheo Hodari Coker

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You shouldn't have counseling at the end of life. You ought to have counseling 20 years before you're going to die. You ought to plan these things out. And I don't have any problem with things like living wills. But they ought to be done within the family.

Chuck Grassley

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